Sentences with phrase «ice advance»

And as the sea ice advanced, the winds shifted into a west - east pattern.

Does dust, in concert with other factors, trigger ice advances?

«We found that the Antarctic ice sheet had an uneven effect on the global sea level because its growth resulted in a complex interplay between gravitational and rotational effects and the deformations to Earth's crust caused by ice advance and retreat,» he says.

A recent report on the 2012 summer ice minimum and the correlation with actual ice advance in Antarctica was given in Ice melts at both poles.

They fail to see ice advance after snowfall in warm times.

The researchers recommend that the National Climate Assessment incorporate the timing of spring ice retreat and fall ice advance as measures of climate change in future reports.

According to the team's data, ice advanced from the Aurora Basin and retreated back again at least 11 times during the first 20 million years of the ice sheet's history.

Over the past 50 years, significant decreases in both total sea ice cover and the timing of winter sea ice advance around the WAP [15] have accompanied dramatic reductions in the standing biomass of krill [31], [32].

The 14C Record of Late Pleistocene ice advance and retreat in the central Ross Sea, Antarctica.

The good news is both are consequences of build up of massive glaciers on the continent and consequent sea level drop to the peak of the Wisconsin ice advance 20,000 years ago.

Polar ice advances and retreats, storm systems come and go, and surface currents meander across the oceans.

The evidence suggests that Modern Global Warming is within Holocene variability, but the cryosphere displays a non-cyclical retreat that appears to have undone thousands of years of Neoglacial ice advance.

They also found that 67 percent of the variance for the date at which ice advances back to the shelf break in autumn and winter can be related to the combined effects of the July through September Bering Strait inflow and the date of ice retreat.

A few hundred miles to the east, another such ice advance blocked a river, creating a great meltwater lake (Lake Missoula) over northern Idaho and the western part of Montana.

Data from modern ice stream beds are difficult to obtain, but where ice advanced onto continental shelves during glacial periods, extensive areas of the former bed can be imaged using modern swath sonar tools.

The period at 900 - 600 cal BP was coldest as indicated by ice advance, abundance of kill ages from ice - entombed mosses exposed recently from retreating glacial ice, and apparent gap in peatbank initiation.

Recent sea - ice advances in Baffin Bay / Davis Strait and retreats in the Bellingshausen Sea.

Here, we show that much of the increase in the reported trend occurred due to the previously undocumented effect of a change in the way the satellite sea ice observations are processed for the widely used Bootstrap algorithm data set, rather than a physical increase in the rate of ice advance....

This means shedding any heat they gain from the air and the ground, from water that infiltrates through cracks, and from friction generated as the ice advances.

At the peak of the surge, beginning in 2015, the ice advanced at 9 meters per day, bulldozing everything in its path.

During the first two - thirds of the Quaternary, the ice advanced and retreated roughly every 41,000 years — the same tempo as the changes in the tilt of Earth's axis.

The ice advances, then retreats when the Northern Hemisphere begins to experience particularly warm summers again.

When the arctic is open, it snows and ice advances and earth cools.

The aim is to establish the past history of ice advance and retreat, to look for old grounding lines - the locations where Larsen's feeding glaciers have previously rested on the seafloor.

There is a lag in the ice advance and retreat and that caused scientists to believe the ice volume was increasing when the ice was advancing.

Stammerjohn, S.E., M.R. Drinkwater, R.C. Smith, and X. Liu, 2003: Ice - atmosphere interactions during sea - ice advance and retreat in the western Antarctic Peninsula region.

Similar archaeological finds have been made in the wake of retreating Swiss glaciers, yet again demonstrating the cyclical nature of ice advance & retreat during the Holocene, as in prior interglacial phases: